Which metropolis of Europe fulfills the superlativ, itself in 20. Century to have most strongly changed? No doubt: This title is entitled to Warsaw. Only bomb release place, then fallow land, today Boomtown. A town with millions of inhabitants, for which nearly over night a silhouette of multistoried buildings arose. Certainly no idyllischer place, with which one falls in love at first sight. But beautiful cities are as well known boring. Which one cannot maintain from the quirligen capital of Poland now really. Only quite not of the types, which populate this city (and this book). Among them is a sociology student, who created a restaurant chain; a priest, who drives year by year in an old Mercedes to Rome, in order to remove Johannes Paul II. the Beichte; a German poet, who purged to the beautiful pole inside rescueless. Also of the former inhabitants of this city one experiences some: of Chopin and Popieluszko, of Szpilman and realm Ranicki, of rosa Luxembourg and the sayful Syrena (sea-virgin), which today only the stadtwappen ziert. Of Poland women are likewise a grateful topic. The twentieth century put a veil the heavy courage over this proud city. From Poland, Czeslaw Milosz sealed, is "wenig well-known abroad, because its mourning has neither hands nor Gesicht". The book of Gerhard Gnauck, Poland polen-Korrespondent of the WELT since 1999, treats also two different fall, which Warsaw in the world war experienced: that the once largest Jewish community of Europe and that the Polish metropolis altogether. But the life forwards and the time after the disaster held of writers, who come here to word: Heine, Doeblin and Singer, Szczypiorski and Stasiuk. Also of the relationship that Poland to the car, of their long march from the Wodka to the beer, of well-known politicians and of less well-known slot ears is to be read. Initially Gnauck asks whether Warsaw actually lies in Europe. Since 1 May this question might be settled. But one regards it dialectically: The metropolis lies also further a little in the east and a completely small little even in America. Why, this book betrays.

That bigger parking lot you can see further back will also be built over in the future -- the only reason an investor hasn't been able to yet is because ownership of parts of the plot is still in dispute.

Whole eastern Europe is developing by building shopping centres and residentials. And all of it stands on foreign loans and leasings. there is nothing to be proud of.

the interesting fact is that nearly all projects and actually allmajor projects are being developed using loans and leasings from local banks and funds, and another interesting thing is that the major supermarket chain (occupying about 25% of whole retail market) is 100% of local capital
just to correct your last sentence. I'm talking about Lithuania.

interesting fact, I didn't know that, I like that tower. Is there any material of how it was supposed to look like in those times? Was the project changed or is this the original project which now is built?

interesting fact, I didn't know that, I like that tower. Is there any material of how it was supposed to look like in those times? Was the project changed or is this the original project which now is built?

I don't have photos, but in communist times the tower was covered by a golden glass and completely unfinished inside (because of lack of money, of course ) After the collapse of communism the construction was finished by Yugoslavians and the tower changed its colour